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| Netanyahu vows crackdown on 'Arab crime' |
| 2016-01-04 |
| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Saturday the murder of two people in Tel Aviv by a shooter suspected of being an Arab Israeli, pledging a crackdown on crime in that community. A man police identified as Nashaat Melhem shot up a pub Friday, killing the two and wounding seven others before fleeing. He remained on the lam late Saturday, with thousands of police searching for him. The shooting came amid a wave of Paleostinian attacks on Israelis, and while police said there was a "strong possibility that this was a terrorist attack", Netanyahu did not define it as such. "There was a despicable murder here yesterday, incomprehensible cruelty", he said after lighting a candle outside the pub. The attack was condemned by the council of Arara, the suspect's hometown, as well as by the head of the Joint List, which groups parliament's main Arab parties. "I appreciate the condemnations of the crime from the Arab sector; I must say I expect all Arab members of parliament, without exception, to condemn the murder," the premier said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Racist!!!! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-04 04:07 |